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Members of the Montana Conservation Corps (MCC) work on trails near Tally Lake in northwestern Montana. Claire Harbage/NPR
During the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the Civilian Conservation Corps to improve the country s public lands, forests, and parks. Now, nearly a hundred years later, President Biden is trying to bring a similar version of it back. He wants to launch the Civilian Climate Corps to address the threat of climate change.
NPR s White House correspondent Scott Detrow and National Desk Correspondent Nathan Rott report on Biden s plan and how it could play out.
Dems say there s no evidence - but when have Dems needed evidence? Wed May 19, 2021 Experts predicted 1 million jobs would be created in April. The actual number fell far short, at 266,000. Republicans warned that overly generous COVID-19 relief benefits create a disincentive to work. The day before this disappointing jobs report, Bloomberg wrote: In earnings calls and business surveys, executives often blame stimulus checks and generous unemployment benefits for hampering hiring efforts. . Friday s employment report, which is projected to show the economy added 1 million jobs in April, should offer new insight into this mismatch and whether it s deterring growth. When the numbers came in, Biden administration officials lacked no shortage of excuses. Some potential workers, they argued, feared going back to work because of COVID-19; many schools had still yet to resume in-school learning, particularly burdensome for single parents; we re still early
Biden has a chance at greatness â if he can avoid repeating LBJ s biggest mistake (Official White House Photo by Cameron Smith)
President Joe Biden makes a call Saturday, April 10, 2021, in the in his private dining area of the White House.
TomDispatchMay 19, 2021
Is President Biden afflicted with the political equivalent of a split personality? His first several months in office suggest just that possibility. On the home front, the president s inclination is clearly to Go Big. When it comes to America s role in the world, however, Biden largely hews to pre-Trumpian precedent. So far at least, the administration s overarching foreign-policy theme is Take It Slow.
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